Covent Garden : the untold story : dispatches from the English culture war, 1945-2000 / by Lebrecht, Norman, 1948-

Subjects: “…Royal Opera House (London, England)…”

Music in fascist Italy / by Sachs, Harvey, 1946-

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Dionysus since 69 : Greek tragedy at the dawn of the third millennium /

Table of Contents: “…Greek tragedy in the opera house and concert hall of the late twentieth century /…”
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The Poet and the Sailor : The Story of My Friendship with Carl Sandburg / by Dodson, Kenneth, 1907-1999

Table of Contents: “…Navy -- Getting down to serious writing -- Carl Sandburg's first visit to the Dodsons -- Writing becomes a top priority -- Correspondence January 1950 to October 1951 -- Carl Sandburg's second visit to the Dodsons -- The book is finished and published -- Carl Sandburg's performance at the Opera House, Seattle -- Carl Sandburg's aging and death, 1967.…”
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The poet and the sailor : the story of my friendship with Carl Sandburg / by Dodson, Kenneth, 1907-1999

Table of Contents: “…Navy -- Getting down to serious writing -- Carl Sandburg's first visit to the Dodsons -- Writing becomes a top priority -- Correspondence January 1950 to October 1951 -- Carl Sandburg's second visit to the Dodsons -- The book is finished and published -- Carl Sandburg's performance at the Opera House, Seattle -- Carl Sandburg's aging and death, 1967.…”
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The enchanted years of the stage : Kansas City at the crossroads of American theater, 1870-1930 / by Londré, Felicia Hardison, 1941-

Heart-power victory / by Chinmoy, Sri, 1931-2007

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Music, modern culture, and the critical ear : a festschrift for Peter Franklin /

Table of Contents: “…Peter Franklin's guilty pleasures / Susan McClary -- From opera house to cinema: forging a new discipline in 1988 / Kate Daubney -- Extraordinary listening (Mahler -- and Franklin) / Sherry Lee and Thomas Peattie -- Korngold's Violanta: Venice, carnival, and the masking of identities / Ben Winters -- Erik Satie and the subject(s) of mobility / Jonathan Hicks -- "Ein Menschenherz geopfert -- oder viele!"…”
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Dionysus since 69 : Greek tragedy at the dawn of the third millennium /

Table of Contents: “…Zeitlin -- Bad women : gender politics in late twentieth-century performance and revision of Greek tragedy / Helene Foley -- Heracles as Dr Strangelove and GI Joe : male heroism deconstructed / Kathleen Riley -- Sophocles' Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney's, and some other recent half-rhymes / Oliver Taplin -- Aeschylus, race, class, and war in the 1990s / Edith Hall -- Greek tragedy in cinema : theatre, politics, history / Pantelis Michelakis -- Greek drama and anti-colonialism : decolonizing classics / Lorna Hardwick -- The use of masks in modern performances of Greek drama / David Wiles -- Greek notes in Samuel Beckett's theatre art / Katharine Worth -- Greek tragedy in the opera house and concert hall of the late twentieth century / Peter Brown -- Oedipus in the East End : from Freud to Berkoff / Fiona Macintosh -- Thinking about the origins of theatre in the 1970s / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- The voices we hear / Timberlake Wertenbaker -- Details of production discussed / Amanda Wrigley.…”

Crisis and form in the later writing of Ingeborg Bachmann : an aesthetic examination of the poetic drafts of the 1960s / by McMurtry, Áine, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Writing in the 1960s ; Ich weiss keine bessere Welt ; Letzte, unveröffentlichte Gedichte, Entwürfe und Fassungen ; 'Todesarten'-poems ; Critical resposne ; Experimental aesthetics -- Writing in the 1960s: The calamity of speechlessness ; Writing and experience ; Writing the body ; 'Todesarten'-Projekt ; The body as site -- The case of the Berlin writings: West Berlin ; The poetic drafts of the 1960s ; The shock of the city: Benjamin and Baudelaire ; The Büchner Prize context ; 'Das Dokument einer Krise' ; Georg Groddeck and 'das Es' ; The symptomatic scene of Berlin: Ein Ort für Zufälle -- 'Liebe ist ein Kunstwerk": the appeal to Gaspara Stampa: The early love lyrics ; Gaspara Stampa ; The poetic drafts of the 1960s ; Reading Malina through Barthes: Fragments d'un discours amoureux ; The figure of 'Schwester Eleonore' ; Narrative solutions: 'Liebe ist ein Kunstwerk' -- Tristan and the composition of a reflexive aesthetic: The Wagnerian intertext ; The poetic drafts of the 1960s ; The Tristan dreams in Malina ; In the opera house: Adorno on mass-culture ; Voicing trauma: Adorno on Schönberg ; Reflexive aesthetics: 'Meine Tagrätsel sind grösser als meine Traumrätsel' -- Conclusion.…”
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Echoes down the corridor : collected essays, 1944-2000 / by Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005

Table of Contents: “…A boy grew in Brooklyn -- University of Michigan -- Belief in America (from Situation normal) -- A modest proposal for the pacification of the public temper -- Concerning the boom -- The bored and the violent -- The Nazi trials and the German heart -- Guilt and Incident at Vichy -- The battle of Chicago : from the delegate's side -- Kidnapped? -- The Opera House in Tashkent (from In Russia) -- Making crowds -- Miracles -- What's wrong with this picture? …”

Museum, gallery and cultural architecture in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Region : essays in Antipodean identity /

Table of Contents: “…Preface / Professor Lindsay Johnston -- Acknowledgements -- Geography, Culture and the Construction of Identity -- Isolation and the periphery -- Cultural Constructions in the Antipodes -- An Architecture of Persuasion: The Rhetorical Structure of Jørn Utzon's Sydney Opera House -- Introduction -- Alternative interpretation: Rhetoric and Gesture -- The Fifth Elevation -- Alive to the Eyes -- Conclusion -- A Choral Work: The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa -- Introduction -- Triton Genos -- National Identity -- Architectural Concept -- Triton Genos -- The WA Maritime Museum, the Swan Bell Tower and the lure of the sea -- Introduction -- The Western Australian Maritime Museum -- The Swan Bell Tower -- Conclusion -- National Museum of Australia and the Australian Status Quo -- Intorduction -- The Context of the NMA -- A Framework for Analysis -- Interpreting the NMA -- Museological Landscapes, Mythological Lands: The Garden of Australian Dreams -- Introduction -- The Layout of the Garden of Australian Dreams.…”
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Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918.

Table of Contents: “…Why American Art Music First Arrived in New EnglandPromoting the Local Product: Reflections on the California Musical Press, 1874-1914; Music in Lancaster, Kentucky, 1885-1910: Local Talent, Touring Artists, and the Opera House; Jacob Guth in Montrose: A Town Band in Central Pennsylvania, 1888-1897; When Cairo Met Main Street: Little Egypt, Salome Dancers, and the World's Fairs of 1893 and 1904; Inventing Tradition: Symphony and Opera in Progressive-Era Los Angeles; The Operettas of Charles Hutchinson Gabriel; The Missing Title Page: Dvořák and the American National Song; Index; Contributors.…”
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The enchanted years of the stage : Kansas City at the crossroads of American theater, 1870-1930 / by Londré, Felicia Hardison, 1941-

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Grindhouse : cultural exchange on 42nd Street, and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Phyll Smith -- Chapter 3 -- Temporary Fleapits and Scabs' Alley:The Theatrical Dissemination of Italian Cannibal Films in Melbourne, Australia -- Dean Brandum -- Chapter 4 -- Run, Angel, Run: Serial Production and the Biker Movie, 1966-72 -- Peter Stanfield -- Chapter 5 -- "The Smashing, Crashing, Pileup of the Century": The Carsploitation Film -- Robert J Read -- Chapter 6 -- Cars and Girls (and Burgers and Weed): Branding, Mainstreaming, and Crown International Pictures' SoCal Drive-in Movies -- Richard Nowell -- Chapter 7 -- From "Sex Entertainment for the Whole Family" to Mature Pictures: I Jomfruens Tegn and Transnational Erotic Cinema -- Kevin Heffernan -- Chapter 8 -- 'Bigger Than A Payphone, Smaller Than A Cadillac': Porn Stardom in Exhausted: John C Holmes The Real Story -- Neil Jackson -- Chapter 9 -- From Opera House to Grindhouse (And Back Again): Ozploitation In and Beyond Australia -- Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Chapter 10 -- Go West, Brother: the Politics of Landscape in the Blaxploitation Western -- Austin Fisher -- Chapter 11 -- Red Power, White Movies: Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and the Cultural Politics of the "Indiansploitation" Cycle -- David Church -- Chapter 12 -- Sleazy Strip-Joints and Perverse Porn Circuses: The Remediation of Grindhouse in the Porn Productions of Jack the Zipper -- Clarissa Smith -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors.…”

Syncretic arenas : essays on postcolonial African drama and theatre for Esiaba Irobi / by Irobi, Esiaba, 1960-2010

Table of Contents: “…Esiaba Irobi's Legacy: Theory and Practice of Postcolonial Performance Between Soyinka and Clark: The Dynamics of Influence on Esiaba Irobi's Nwokedi; Eclipsed Visions: Esiaba Irobi Interviewed; ESIABA ALONE AND IN COMPANY: A PHOTO GALLERY; PART TWO; Theatre and Modernization in the First Age of Globalization: The Cairo Opera House; Autobiography as Counter-Memory in The Orange Earth of Adam Small; Directing Politics: Soyinkan Parallels in the Works of Uganda's Robert Serumaga; Afrika Cultural Centre: Phoenix Under Apartheid and Burnt Ember Under Democracy?…”
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Let's go to the Grand! : 100 years of entertainment at London's Grand Theatre / by Johnston, Sheila M. F.

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Acting Egyptian : theater, identity, and political culture in Cairo, 1869-1930 / by Gitre, Carmen M. K.

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Music and Politics in San Francisco : From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War. by Miller, Leta E.

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